It’s a funny thing. My husband’s life has been right here waiting for him to be ready. There are all these books…and they’ve always been here. Suddenly, they are everywhere, and he’s reading them
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I had my first drink at the age of three. My father would give me sips of his red wine from a tablespoon while I sat on his lap at the table after dinner.
Although I’ve just finished working the 12 Steps with an online group, I haven’t been to a real life 12 Step meeting in over a year. I went to meetings weekly in the first year after I learned of my husband’s sexual addiction,
I’m really looking forward to the holidays being over with. I had no idea how I’ve come to depend on the ordinariness and predictability of my little world to help me keep my bearings straight.
For the past several months, I have been working the 12 Steps around my own codependency, and this week, I completed Step 12. You may think that I am typing this post out for you to read, using my human arms and hands, but actually, having ascended to a higher plane of being
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